Word: armaments
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...Good Friday this year, Rex Humbard added to his empire. For about $3,000,000, a knockdown price for a property worth five times as much, he bought the almost new, fully equipped Mackinac College, previously run by Moral Re-Armament, on Michigan's Mackinac Island. A high school graduate himself, Humbard has launched a study to see if he can reopen the college, and he already has 452 requests for applications if he does. Even some of Humbard's loyal staffers are concerned about his ability to make this latest project pay. But Rex Humbard himself, obviously...
...been ferrying military supplies to Egypt, including jet fighters, sophisticated anti-aircraft guns, and additional SA-2 and SA3 missiles similar to those that already ring the dam and line the Suez Canal's west bank. The suspension of flights will enable technicians to install some of this armament without observation by curious eyes...
Some action is beginning to accompany the words. Prison reform, for example, has replaced police training and armament as the Administration's top priority. The three-year-old Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, which has a promised authorization of $1.5 billion next year and $1.75 billion for 1973, expects to dispense roughly one-third of the funds to the states for improving jails and prisons. The Justice Department is starting to develop legislative proposals for a nationwide program to treat drug addicts. Earlier, Mitchell's men had blandly suggested that drug addiction was no concern of theirs...
...bathtub gin and bootleg whisky. His wife went to work to support him. and, as Wilson recalled, his mental disintegration "proceeded rapidly and implacably." Injured after an Armistice Day bender in 1934, he tried to heed the inspirational teachings of the First Century Christian Fellowship (precursor of Moral Re-Armament), but soon went on a three-day drunk that left him shattered...
...early, lifelong member of the N.A.A.C.P., and the first Catholic prelate to urge his flock to attend Billy Graham's crusades. He could also praise the anti-Communism of the John Birch Society and write a glowing foreword to a book by the director of the Moral Re-Armament movement...